SEYMOUR — The T-shirts Woodland planned on wearing for the Naugatuck Valley League weightlifting competition arrived Friday, just in time for the Hawks to don an important symbol.

Just below the back neckline on each black shirt, the white initials of George Pinho, a Woodland football coach who died suddenly in January, gave special inspiration to a group who took the loss especially hard.

"I said, 'You may not believe in certain things, but I do,'" Woodland football coach Tim Shea said. "They came ready."

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